89th Academy Awards

[nutso42]

Too soon? Of course! Thus, I'm not even going to bother inventing an excuse for myself, and just go ahead and share my hilariously ill informed predictions, so that we can all collectively mock them in six months.

Best Picture Nominees (ranked by likelihood)

Billy Lynne's Long Halftime Walk
Birth of a Nation
Silence
Manchester by the Sea
La La Land
Paterson
Loving
Queen of Katwe
The Founder
Toni Erdmann



Best Director

Martin Scorsese, Silence
Ang Lee, Billy Lynne's Long Halftime Walk
Nate Parker, Birth of a Nation
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Jim Jarmusch, Paterson

(with a longshot nod for Maren Ade directing Toni Erdmann)


Best Actor

Michael Keaton, The Founder
Bryan Cranston, The Infiltrator
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Nate Parker, Birth of a Nation
Adam Driver, Paterson

(with possible nods for Joel Edgerton in Loving or Dev Patel in Lion)


Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, The Zookeeper's Wife
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Ruth Negga, Loving
Emily Blunt, Girl on a Train
Jennifer Lawrence, Passengers


Best Supporting Actor

Steve Martin, Billy Lynne's Long Halftime Walk
Liam Neeson, Silence
J.K. Simmons, La La Land
Kyle Chandler, Manchester by the Sea
Nicolas Cage, Snowden

(with possible nod for David Oyelowo in Queen of Katwe)


Best Supporting Actress

Kristen Stewart, Billy Lynne's Long Halftime Walk
Lupita Nyong'o, Queen of Katwe
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Free State of Jones
Rooney Mara, Lion
Rachel Weisz, The Light Between Oceans


Best Foreign Language Film

Toni Erdmann
On the Milky Road


Best Animted Film

Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings
Sing
Finding Dory
Moana

[WindowAbove]

Dude like none of these movies are out yet haha

[Hayden]

Billy Lynne's Long Halftime Walk will probably end up getting Best Picture. Ang Lee has been snubbed in that category at least 3 times now.

Plus, it's like.. uber American-ish. Although, by the looks of it, it might also be slightly anti-American... but I'm not sure

Either way, looking forward to many of those. I wouldn't count out Cafe Society, Fences or The Light Between Oceans though.

[nutso42]

[nutso42]

edit: Fez, what happened here?

[Applerill]

[cestuneblague]

Old man getting hit by football

[AwaitingAndrew]

Can't wait to see Silence or La La Land.

I also think Oliver Stone's Snowden will get some attention, primarily for directing.

[nutso42]

I'm really excited by the possibilities of diversity this year. High profile films directed by Ang Lee, Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Amma Asante, and Mira Nair.

Leading roles for Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Ruth Negga, Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nate Parker, Viola Davis, and Dev Patel.

High hopes for this year's Oscars. Let's see if those diversity improvement plans will pay off so quickly.

[nutso42]

Also, while not predicting this for the Oscars, I think Hugh Grant has a good shot at a Golden Globe nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins.